"a rolling stone gathers no moss" meaning in English

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Proverb

IPA: /ə ˈɹol.ɪŋ stoʊn ˈɡæð.əɹz noʊ mɔs/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-a rolling stone gathers no moss.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-a rolling stone gathers no moss.wav
Head templates: {{en-proverb|head=a rolling stone gathers no moss}} a rolling stone gathers no moss
  1. A person who never settles in one place will never be successful. Translations (a person who never settles in one place will never be successful): 滾石不生苔 (Chinese Mandarin), 滚石不生苔 (gǔn shí bù shēng tái) (Chinese Mandarin), der gror ikke mos på rullesten (Danish), een rollende steen vergaart geen mos (Dutch), vierivä kivi ei sammaloidu (Finnish), pierre qui roule n’amasse pas mousse (French), λίθος κυλινδόμενος το φυκος ου ποιεί (líthos kylindómenos to fykos ou poieí) (Greek), 転石苔むさず (tenseki koke musazu) (alt: てんせきこけむさず) (Japanese), 우물을 파도 한 우물을 파라 (umureul pado han umureul para) (Korean), saxum volutum non obducitur musco (Latin), pedra que rola não cria limo (Portuguese), cha chinn còinneach air clach an udalain (Scottish Gaelic), piedra que rueda no prende musgo (Spanish), piedra que rueda no cría moho (Spanish), piedra movediza nunca moho la cobija (Spanish), hombre de muchos oficios pobre seguro (Spanish), el que viaja no produce pero sí gasta (Spanish), ஒரு இடத்தில் இல்லாதவன் ஜெயிக்க மாட்டார் (oru iṭattil illātavaṉ jeyikka māṭṭār) (Tamil)
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  2. A person must keep active in order to avoid stagnating.
    Sense id: en-a_rolling_stone_gathers_no_moss-en-proverb-klaY1bPb Categories (other): English proverbs Disambiguation of English proverbs: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: a rolling stone gathers momentum (alt: antiproverb), let the grass grow under one's feet
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.