What does "smart" mean? Are you smart if you get A's on tests or are you smart if you stay away from drugs? I believe the both answers fit perfect examples of "smart".
There are two types of smart. One being street-smart, the other being book-smart. When I thesaurused (is that a word? Hah) street smart, words like "common sense," "wisdom," "know-how," and "acumen" came up. Thus, street smart means a person who has an all around knack or intellect of knowledge. Not necessarily textbook knowledge, more like random daily life information. As Urban Dictionary says, a street smart person is one who knows "what every type of person has to deal with daily and understands all groups of people and how to act around them and different situations."
On the other side of the spectrum is book-smart, which as Urban Dictionary defines it as, "someone who is intelligent and very well educated academically." Pretty self explanatory. An example of a book smart person is an A student, in all AP classes, who is very good at memorization, test taking, note taking etc.
Its interesting to compare and contrast both aspects of smart, and maybe which category you, yourself, fit in. Do you agree with these definitions? Is there a third definition of smart?
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