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

“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 addition to the Mavericks and his solo work, Malo also played with Los Super Seven, a sprawling roots-music supergroup whose other members included Jiménez, Freddy Fender and members of Los Lobos.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

"We set up the tyre repair shop in the middle of the sand dunes, far from the town centre," says Mr Jiménez.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

Miss Jiménez liked to teach us English through song, and we learned all our songs phonetically, having no idea of what the words meant.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago