Definition of "shan't" [shan't]

• Contraction of shall not. (proper-noun-possessi)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I shan't forget Rodger's face when I told him the news."
• "We shan't ever hunger again, the beard spoke as the stomach below rumbled."
• ""I ain't a child," says the last, "and I shan't be a woman till I'm twenty, but I'm past eight, I am.""