Usage note Expand See contraction. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2016. Cite This Source Examples from the Web for shan't Expand Historical Examples Of course you think Lottie is the prettiest, and I shant quarrel with you about that. The White Rose of Memphis William C. Falkner And even so we shant be able to prevent her doing things to us and for us. Adrienne Toner Anne Douglas Sedgwick Good Lord deliver us, said Edward; I shant get four bob a stone for them. Mrs. Craddock W. Somerset Maugham