rowing club vs guild

rowing club and guild both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rowing club	Yes	No	No	No
guild	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hypernyms of rowing club include club, gild, lodge, order, social club, society.

rowing club (noun)	guild (noun)
a club for rowers	a formal association of people with similar interests