beach vs formation

beach and formation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
beach	Yes	No	Yes	No
formation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, formation is a hypernym of beach; that is, formation is a word with a broader meaning than beach:

Other hypernyms of beach include geological formation.

beach (noun)	formation (noun)
an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake	the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
	the act of forming or establishing something
	creation by mental activity
	a particular spatial arrangement
	an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
	(geology) the geological features of the earth
	natural process that causes something to form

beach (verb)	formation (verb)
land on a beach