Everyday life
DOM-TOM
Read as a wordStandardB2Meaning
départements et territoires d'outre-mer
The parts of France outside Europe: Guadeloupe, Réunion, Martinique. The official acronym has changed (DROM-COM), but everyone still says DOM-TOM.
How it is said
dom-tom
Gender and article
les DOM-TOM · plural
Where you meet it
An article, a weather forecast, a form (« France métropolitaine ou DOM-TOM »).
Example
Livraison gratuite en France métropolitaine, 15 euros vers les DOM-TOM.
Free delivery in mainland France, 15 euros to overseas territories (DOM-TOM).
In the DELF
reading B2
Watch out
Read « dom-tom », plural, with its hyphen. On a recent form, read DROM-COM or « outre-mer »: it is the same thing.