gold-beater vs artificer

gold-beater and artificer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gold-beater	Yes	No	No	No
artificer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, artificer is a hypernym of gold-beater; that is, artificer is a word with a broader meaning than gold-beater:

Other hypernyms of gold-beater include artisan, craftsman, journeyman.

gold-beater (noun)	artificer (noun)
an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf	a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
	someone who is the first to think of or make something
	an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.