chess club vs gild

chess club and gild both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chess club	Yes	No	No	No
gild	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, gild is a hypernym of chess club; that is, gild is a word with a broader meaning than chess club:

Other hypernyms of chess club include club, guild, lodge, order, social club, society.

chess club (noun)	gild (noun)
a club of people to play chess	a formal association of people with similar interests

chess club (verb)	gild (verb)
	decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold