An ancient port and Bronze Age trading city in northern Syria, founded in Neolithic times and destroyed by the Sea Peoples in about the 12th century BC. Its people spoke a Semitic language written in a distinctive cuneiform alphabet.
Definition of Ugarit in US English:
Ugarit
proper noun(y)o͞oˈɡärit
An ancient port and Bronze Age trading city in northern Syria. Its people spoke a Semitic language written in a distinctive cuneiform alphabet.