slate club vs gild

slate club and gild both are nouns.

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

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

slate club: a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas)
gild: a formal association of people with similar interests

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

slate club (noun)	gild (noun)
a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas)	a formal association of people with similar interests

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