any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs
"The old medical textbook mentioned bromide as a common sedative, though it noted that doctors had long since switched to safer alternatives."
a trite or obvious remark
"After hearing yet another bromide about hard work always paying off, I decided to skip the motivational seminar."
A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
"The chemist carefully mixed silver nitrate into the solution to precipitate out a small amount of insoluble bromide for analysis."