Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
trotskyist is a noun meaning "radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution". It carries one recorded sense.
radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trotskyist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.