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A word which, like whom, has come to be thought of as overly formal and stuffy in American speech. In current use, it indicates a very strong intention or will to do something. Traditionally, shall is used as an auxilliary to form the future tense for the first person: ("I" and "we") I shall go you will go he/she/it will go we shall go they will go Negative: shall not, contracted as shan't.
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