Your organization may already have an existing glossary in place if so then reuse appropriate terms from it. Often your industry will already have a specialized dictionary describing common terms which you may want to adopt as well.
The best advice that I can give about creating a glossary is to be realistic. You’re not Webster’s – you don’t have to get the definitions perfect, they just need to be good enough. Furthermore, dictionaries have multiple definitions for most words so don’t be afraid to do the same. Ideally you want a single definition; realistically it often isn’t worth the effort to argue it out if it’s even possible to come to agreement.
An important issue with glossaries, with all artifacts for that matter, is to make them available to people. This is one of the reasons why AM includes the Display Models Publicly practice. You might want to consider documenting your glossary as a single HTML page that everyone can access and hopefully edit (remember the practice of Collective Ownership). Another option, particularly if editing a major concern, is to use a Wiki.
Remember that your conceptual/domain model, if you have one, will also refer to critical domain concepts. You should strive to single source information and capture a definition in the most appropriate place possible. I suspect that will be your glossary, not the domain model.
Source
This artifact description is excerpted from Chapter 7 of The Object Primer 3rd Edition: Agile Model Driven Development with UML 2.