yacht club vs society

yacht club and society both are nouns.

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

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

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

yacht club (noun)	society (noun)
club that promotes and supports yachting and boating	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