Today the word <answer>szlachta</answer> in the Polish language simply translates to "nobility". In its broadest meaning, it can also denote some non-hereditary honorary knighthoods granted today by some European monarchs. Occasionally, 19th-century non-noble landowners were referred to as <answer>szlachta</answer> by courtesy or error, when they owned manorial estates though they were not noble by birth. In the narrow sense, <answer>szlachta</answer> denotes the old-Commonwealth nobility.
What were the non noble land owners referred too as?
szlachta