reckoner
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Etymology
From Middle English reknere, rekenere, by surface analysis, reckon + -er. Cognate with Afrikaans rekenaar, Dutch Low Saxon rekener, German Rechner, Danish regner, Swedish räknare.
Pronunciation
Noun
reckoner (plural reckoners)
- One who reckons.
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XLII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- “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.”
- 1959 [1901], “middle-aged”, in William Geddie, editor, Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, revised edition, page 672:
- middle-aged (-ajd), between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner
- (archaic) An accountant; one who computes or calculates.
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