Usually means: Refuse to do something; abstain.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word shan't:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. shan't: Merriam-Webster
  2. shan't: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shan't: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shan't, shan't: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Sha'n't, Shan't, Shant, sha'n't, sha'nt, shan't, shant, shant: Wordnik
  6. shan't: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sha'n't, shan't, shant: Wiktionary
  8. shan't: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. shan't: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. shan't: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shan't, shant: Dictionary.com
  12. shant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Shan't: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. shan't: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Shan't: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. shan't, shant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shant (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. shant, shant, shant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. shant: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. shan't, shant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shan't)

▸ verb:  (UK, Ireland, colloquial; archaic in US, Canada; dated in Australia, New Zealand) Contraction of shall not (negative auxiliary).

Similar:
shandy, rock shandy, pint, schooner, shand, pinter, gage, half-pint, shiner, pinta, more...

Opposite:
mansion, palace, estate, villa, manor



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Similar:
shandy, rock shandy, pint, schooner, shand, pinter, gage, half-pint, shiner, pinta, more...

Opposite:
mansion, palace, estate, villa, manor



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