Usually means: Expresses obligation, necessity, or determination.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word Shall:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shall: Merriam-Webster
  3. shall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shall: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shall: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shall, shall: Wordnik
  8. shall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shall: Wiktionary
  10. shall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shall: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shall: Dictionary.com
  14. shall: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shall: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shall: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shall: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shall: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. Shall: Rhymezone
  20. Shall: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shall: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shall: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shall: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. shall: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. shall: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. shall: Legal dictionary
  5. shall: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shall: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shall: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shall)

▸ verb:  Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.
▸ verb:  Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural.
▸ verb:  Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To owe.

Similar:
will, shal, vill, wille, 'ull, wull, let's, weel, woll, wyll, more...

Opposite:
will, not, should, not, must, not, cannot, need, not

Types:
small, little, miniscule, tiny, diminutive, more...

Phrases:
shall issue, never the twain shall meet, shall flower, shill i shall i, Shall and will, more...

Adjectives:
divine, how, high, more, great, last, vain, good, white, precious, grave


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Similar:
will, shal, vill, wille, 'ull, wull, let's, weel, woll, wyll, more...

Opposite:
will, not, should, not, must, not, cannot, need, not

Types:
small, little, miniscule, tiny, diminutive, more...

Phrases:
shall issue, never the twain shall meet, shall flower, shill i shall i, Shall and will, shall i compare thee to a summer's day, shall i compare thee to a summers day, We Shall Overcome, more...

Adjectives:
divine, how, high, more, great, last, vain, good, white, precious, grave



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