rowing club vs society

rowing club and society both are nouns.

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

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

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

rowing club (noun)	society (noun)
a club for rowers	an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
	a formal association of people with similar interests
	the fashionable elite
	the state of being with someone