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

Mechanic Fabio Javier Jiménez found himself in the right place at the right time.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

Jiménez, now working in art law, was at the auction Tuesday night.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

"Using our AI-supported platform, we managed to identify 30 other manuscripts that belong to the rediscovered hymn -- a process that would formerly have taken decades," said Jiménez, who teaches at LMU's Institute of Assyriology.

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 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