The term is now obsolete in standard English but is still well known from poetry, such as Robert Browning's Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came and Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
However, the word is still used in the local Doric dialect of north-east Scotland.
The term is used in application to an expected next stage in human evolution in the Childe Cycle novels by Gordon R. Dickson.
Childe in Stephen King's The Dark Tower is, in Roland Deschain's own words, "... a term that describes a knight – or a gunslinger – on a quest.
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