gild

Noun

• a formal association of people with similar interests
  • he joined a golf club
    
  • they formed a small lunch society
    
  • men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
    

Verb

• decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  club , social club , society , guild , lodge , order , begild , engild