Jiménez

American  

[hee-me-neth] / hiˈmɛ nɛθ /

noun

1. Juan Ramón 1881–1958, Spanish poet: Nobel Prize 1956.

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Jiménez British  

/ xiˈmenɛθ /

noun

1. Juan Ramón (xwan raˈmɔn). 1881–1958, Spanish lyric poet. His most famous work is Platero y yo (1917), a prose poem: Nobel prize for literature 1956

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Example Sentences

His best friend from high school in their native Madrid, Pablo Jiménez de Parga Ramos, who had also secured a corporate job after graduating from University College London, felt the same.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

“You can’t tell who it is. They don’t yell or anything. It’s just that—banging on pots,” said Rodolfo Jiménez, a retiree who has lived on the same street in Havana his entire life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

In 1996, the Mavericks won a Grammy Award for “Here Comes the Rain,” a chiming roots-rock number from their album “Music for All Occasions,” which featured appearances by Trisha Yearwood and the accordionist Flaco Jiménez.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

“When I started working with Olly, he was already famous,” Jiménez said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

I’d sit down, open my notebook, write the date at the top of the page, and look up to Miss Jiménez and her cheery “Buenos días, clase.”

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago