"A rolling stone gathers no moss" is a proverb.
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Proverb
//ˈpɹɑvɝb//
Synonyms for "proverb" (64 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (32)
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3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriescoordinate
14 entriesderived
9 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
176 translations across 102 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- proverb noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- thënie noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- παροιμία noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Arabic
4 entries- حِكْمَة noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- ضَرْب مَثَل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- ضَرْبُ الْمَثَل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- مَثَل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Armenian
2 entries- առած noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- ասացվածք noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Asturian
1 entries- proverbiu noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- atalar sözü noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- atasözü noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- məsəl noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Bashkir
2 entries- мәҡәл noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- әйтем noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Basque
1 entries- atsotitz noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Belarusian
2 entries- пры́казка noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- прысло́ўе noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Bengali
1 entries- প্রবাদ noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Breton
1 entries- krennlavar noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Bulgarian
2 entries- погово́рка noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- посло́вица noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Burmese
2 entries- စကားပုံ noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- ဆိုထုံး noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Catalan
4 entries- dita noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- parèmia noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- proverbi noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- refrany noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Chakma
1 entries- 𑄓𑄊𑄧𑄇𑄧𑄙 noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Chechen
1 entries- кица noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Chichewa
1 entries- mwambi noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 箴言 noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- 諺語 /谚语 noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 箴言 noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- 諺語 /谚语 noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Czech
1 entries- přísloví noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Danish
1 entries- ordsprog noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Dari
3 entries- ضَرْبُ الْمَثَل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- مَثَل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- مَقَال noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Dutch
2 entries- gezegde noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- spreekwoord noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Esperanto
2 entries- proverbo noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- sentenco noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Estonian
1 entries- vanasõna noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Faroese
2 entries- orðatak noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- orðtak noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Finnish
2 entries- sananlasku noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- sanonta noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
French
1 entries- proverbe noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Galician
3 entries- proverbio noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- refrán noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- verbo noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Georgian
1 entries- ანდაზა noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
German
4 entries- Denkspruch noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- Proverb noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- Redensart noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- Sprichwort noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐌾𐌿𐌺𐍉 noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Greek
1 entries- παροιμία noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Greenlandic
1 entries- ussat noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Gujarati
1 entries- કહેવત noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- provèb noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Hebrew
1 entries- פִּתְגָּם noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Hindi
4 entries- कहावत noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- ज़र्ब-उल-मसल noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- मसल noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- लोकोक्ति noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Hungarian
1 entries- közmondás noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Icelandic
2 entries- málsháttur noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- orðskviður noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Ido
1 entries- proverbo noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Indonesian
1 entries- peribahasa noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Ingrian
1 entries- sananverto noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- ضَرْبُ الْمَثَل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- مَثَل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- مَقال noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Irish
1 entries- seanfhocal noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Italian
1 entries- proverbio noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Ivatan
1 entries- pananahan noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Japanese
2 entries- 格言 noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- 諺 noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Kazakh
1 entries- мақал noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Khmer
1 entries- សុភាសិត noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Korean
2 entries- 격언 noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- 속담 noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- макал noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Lao
2 entries- ພາສິດ noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- ສຸພາສິດ noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Latin
4 entries- adagium noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- adagiō noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- paroemia noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- proverbium noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Latvian
2 entries- paruna noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- sakāmvārds noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Lithuanian
1 entries- patarlė noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Low German
2 entries- Snacks noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- Spriekel noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Sprachwuert noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Macedonian
3 entries- изрека noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- поговорка noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- пословица noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Malay
1 entries- peribahasa noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Malayalam
2 entries- പഴഞ്ചൊല്ല് noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- പഴമൊഴി noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Maltese
1 entries- qawl noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Marwari
1 entries- कैवत noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Mongolian
2 entries- зүйр цэцэн үг noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- зүйр үг noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Māori
1 entries- rārangi whakataukī noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- gotina mezinan noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- gotinên pêşiyan noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ordtak noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- ordtak noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Old English
1 entries- biword noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Oromo
1 entries- mammaaksa noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Ossetian
1 entries- ӕмбисонд noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- присловка noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Pashto
3 entries- ضرب المثل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- متل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- مثل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Polish
1 entries- przysłowie noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Portuguese
1 entries- provérbio noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Romanian
2 entries- proverb noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- proverbe noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Russian
3 entries- погово́рка noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- посло́вица noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- при́сказка noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- gnàth-fhacal noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- seanfhacal noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pòslovica noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- по̀словица noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Sikkimese
1 entries- ཁ་དཔེ noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Slovak
1 entries- príslovie noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Slovene
1 entries- pregovor noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Spanish
4 entries- paremia noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- proverbio noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- refrán noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- retraher noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Swahili
1 entries- methali noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Swedish
1 entries- ordspråk noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Tagalog
1 entries- salawikain noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Tajik
3 entries- зарбулмасал noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- масал noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- мақол noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Tamil
1 entries- பழமொழி noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Tatar
1 entries- мәкаль noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Telugu
3 entries- నానుడి noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- లోకోక్తి noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- సామెత noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Thai
2 entries- ภาษิต noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- สุภาษิต noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Tibetan
1 entries- གཏམ་དཔེ། noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Turkish
2 entries- atasözü noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- darbımesel noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Turkmen
2 entries- atalar sözi noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- nakyl noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Ukrainian
2 entries- при́казка noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- прислі́в'я noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Urdu
3 entries- ضَرْبُ الْمَثَل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- مَثَل noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- کَہاوَت noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Uyghur
2 entries- ماقال noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- ھېكمەت noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Uzbek
3 entries- maqol noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- masal noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- zarbulmasal noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tục ngữ noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Volapük
2 entries- pükedavöd noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- spiket noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Welsh
1 entries- dihareb noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Yiddish
3 entries- וועלטסווערטל noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- פֿאָלקסווערטל noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
- שפּריכוואָרט noun (phrase expressing a basic truth)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
The old proverb still holds good in our modern society.
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The proverb is quoted from Franklin.
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The proverb is familiar.
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