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reckoner

/ˈɹɛkənə(ɹ)/

reckoner noun: one who reckons.

Noun

reckoner (plural reckoners)

  1. One who reckons.
    • “No. Not quite a month.—It is only four weeks to-morrow since I left Mansfield.”
      “You are a most accurate and honest reckoner. I should call that a month.”1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XLII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
    • middle-aged (-ajd), between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner1959 [1901], “middle-aged”, in William Geddie, editor, Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, revised edition, page 672
  2. (archaic) An accountant; one who computes or calculates.
  3. An ordinator.

reckoner meaning in Tamil

reckoner in Tamil

கணிப்புச்சுவடி, கணிப்புப்பட்டி

Forms of reckoner

pluralreckoners

Origin of reckoner

From Middle English reknere, rekenere. Cognate with Afrikaans rekenaar, Dutch Low Saxon rekener, German Rechner, Danish regner, Swedish räknare. By surface analysis, reckon + -er.

Words formed from reckoner

Questions about reckoner

What does reckoner mean?
Reckoner means one who reckons.
What is reckoner in Tamil?
Reckoner in Tamil is கணிப்புச்சுவடி, கணிப்புப்பட்டி. See Reckoner meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is reckoner?
Reckoner is a noun.
How do you pronounce reckoner?
Reckoner is pronounced /ˈɹɛkənə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of reckoner?
The plural of reckoner is reckoners.

Words near reckoner in the dictionary

  1. reckoned up
  2. reckoned upon
  3. reckoned with
  4. reckoned without
  5. reckoned without one's host
  6. reckoner
  7. reckoners
  8. reckonest
  9. reckoneth
  10. reckonin'
  11. reckoning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reckoner (page history and authors); reckoner (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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